Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SporkBot 6


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SporkBot 6
Operator:

Time filed: 02:13, Sunday, June 28, 2015 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Supervised

Programming language(s): Perl using the MediaWiki::Bot library

Source code available: Standard Perl regular expressions

Function overview: Replace improper use of plainlist markup in chronology fields.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Discussion on the talk page for Infobox album

Edit period(s): One time run, unless the tracking category fills up again.

Estimated number of pages affected: Approximate 2000

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): Yes

Function details: Go through the list of pages in Category:Pages using infobox chronology parameters with plainlists and replace  with   since the album and the year are not a list, but simply a single piece of data with a newline for formatting.

Discussion

 * I support this request. note that for HTML 5, we can use either  or . Frietjes (talk) 13:31, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

-- Magioladitis (talk) 13:35, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
 * 50 trial edits. Note that there are 53 edits on the list, but 3 are for a different task.  The only one that had any difficulty was this edit, where it added an additional set of break tags.  However, I have since adjusted the code to make it more cautious, so that won't happen again.  Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ (talk)  20:37, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

-- Magioladitis (talk) 22:09, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
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